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SIR ASHLEY EDEN (1831-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 924 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:ASHLEY See also:EDEN (1831-1887)  , Anglo-See also:Indian See also:official and diplomatist, third son of See also:Robert See also:John See also:Eden, third See also:Lord See also:Auckland and See also:bishop of See also:Bath and See also:Wells, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:November 1831, and was educated at See also:Rugby, See also:Winchester and the See also:East See also:India See also:Company's See also:college at Haileybury, entering the Indian See also:civil service in 1852 . In 1855 he gained distinction as assistant to the See also:special See also:commissioner for the suppression of the See also:Santal rising, and in 186o was appointed secretary to the See also:Bengal See also:government with an ex officio seat on the legislative See also:council, a position he held for eleven years . In 1861 he negotiated, as was See also:Tin-ter, " dwelling of See also:life." Cf . Babilu, Babili, " See also:gate of See also:God . Babylonia, Hommel thinks that it is rather the See also:plain about the sacred See also:city of See also:Eridu . It is the latter See also:scholar to whom the " Arabian theory" of See also:Paradise in its best-known See also:form is due . The See also:rivers (apart from Perath, " See also:Euphrates ") he locates in See also:northern and central See also:Arabia, the " See also:Cush " and " Asshur " of See also:Genesis being, according to him, central Arabia and See also:Edom respectively (See also:Ancient See also:Hebrew Traditions, pp . 314-316; Aufsatze u: A:bhandlungen, iii . 281-284, 335–339)• These rivers, in See also:short, become Arabian wadis, on which see Hast . D.B. i . 132a (See also:foot) . See also:Cheyne, on the other See also:hand, rejects the Babylonian explanation of Eden as " See also:field, plain," on the ground that " Eden " was originally regarded as a mountainous See also:tract .

See further See also:

Driver, See also:Book of Genesis (1904), pp . 57-60; Ency . Bib . " Paradise "; and the commentaries of Gunkel (2nd ed., 1902), and Cheyne (1907) . (T . K .

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